Sea level around the globe has risen about 8 inches since 1900, and three-quarters of that rise can be traced to human-caused warming. This rise has brought an increase in the frequency of coastal flooding to the U.S., especially in the last decade. Relatively smaller coastal floods that do not involve storms — often referred to as “nuisance“

Sea level around the globe has risen about 8 inches since 1900, and three-quarters of that rise can be traced to human-caused warming. This rise has brought an increase in the frequency of coastal flooding to the U.S., especially in the last decade. Relatively smaller coastal floods that do not involve storms — often referred to as “nuisance“

Parts of Atlantic Coast are still recovering from the onslaught of Hurricane Matthew, but even more flooding is on the way as local tides will reach some of their highest points of the year. With little chance to recover between events, coastal cities are facing a constant reminder that climate change has already tipped the scales toward more

The oceans have heaved up and down as world temperatures have waxed and waned, but as new research tracking the past 2,800 years shows, never during that time did the seas rise as sharply or as suddenly as has been the case during the last century. The new study, the culmination of a decade of work by three teams of farflung scientists, has